FantastiCOF: Fabricating and Implementing Exotic Materials from Covalent Organic Frameworks

Introduction

Superconducting devices based on Josephson Junctions (JJs) are among the most versatile devices in superconducting electronics. Yet challenges remain because conventional JJs are created using a variety of materials that have been identified as a source of noise, dissipation, and dephasing. Additionally, these materials raise compatibility problems during the fabrication process.

Project Objectives

FantastiCOF aims at developing a disruptive methodology to prepare exotic highly crystalline superconducting moir materials. This development will exceed the current challenges and limitations of existing materials and methods. Achieving this would represent an important step forward in the fabrication of low-noise JJ devices that will accelerate the development of the next generation of superconducting electronic devices with enhanced performance and sensitivity.

Project Characteristics

FantastiCOF is an archetype of a perfectly balanced high risk/high gain project. It proposes visionary research to tackle the challenges in the synthesis of moir materials and in the fabrication of low-noise JJs. The project is ambitious and goes beyond the state-of-the-art through:

1. Development of novel synthetic concepts (bottom-up).
2. Use of materials (2D covalent organic frameworks) with no precedents in the field.

This approach opens the door to a totally unexplored terrain (high risk) but provides tangible pathways towards achievements (solid risk assessment).

Research Team

The inherent high risk is countered by a strongly interdisciplinary research team composed of 6 partners (5 academics + 1 SME) with different yet highly complementary backgrounds and demonstrated experience in their corresponding fields.

Expected Impact

Furthermore, FantastiCOF will have a high impact on a broad range of existing and emerging technologies that employ JJs (high gain), such as:

• Metrology
• Medicine
• Quantum information technologies